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by thu2111 6y ago
Isn't stackoverflow a rather good demonstration of the point? People like answering questions so much they'll do it for free. There is no SO of documentation.
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by thu2111 6y ago
It really isn't. The BBC publishes wrong or hopelessly biased stories all the time, which is why the majority of the British population no longer trusts them. As for processes to get corrections, as with many firms the best way to get
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's exactly the same thing. EU tells US companies they have to pay money to European governments if they have European customers or users. Same is happening here in reverse.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Modern JVM GCs have pause times below 1msec. That's a new capability though so most people aren't yet aware of it. And Google's ads backend are hardly the definition of server. Their ads front-end for example always used to
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by thu2111 6y ago
When I started interviewing I used to do that, until I realised it would eliminate about 20% of all useful candidates. The killer is c++. The industry is filled with people who have vague memories of trying to use C++ in the 90s before swit
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by thu2111 6y ago
How explicit do you want? The loom model is VM managed thread stacks with user space context switching. The costs are all quantifiable and a suspended "virtual" thread uses memory directly proportional to the amount of stuff on th
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by thu2111 6y ago
Is it really that incredible? Look at how Kotlin implemented coroutines. The language support is tiny - nearly everything is implemented in libraries that you can compete with. In particular the language rejected the async/await model:
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by thu2111 6y ago
Try Graal native image. It precompiles all code ahead of time and drops all metadata that you don't explicitly say you need. The results start as fast as a C program would and uses 5-10x less memory. The trade-off is lower runtime perf
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by thu2111 6y ago
Why would I want to write a server in a language that requires such awkward approaches to basics like coroutines and dynamic dispatch when I could use kotlin on the JVM and get pauseless GC, ultra fast edit/compile/run cycles, eff
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, not really. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306733
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by thu2111 6y ago
There's clearly no such red team, as otherwise they would have blocked various Spectre attacks too, being as they are all variants of the same problem. AMD were taken by surprise like every other vendor, they just got "lucky"
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by thu2111 6y ago
You'd be surprised how many people with supposedly elite educations don't believe in evolution. For me the most shocking example (or maybe not that shocking) is how it's de rigour in sociology to deny evolution. Yes, they w
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by thu2111 6y ago
Even when I was there years ago, it was common knowledge amongst those of us who did hiring that women had an easier time in the interview process. For example, females could not fail the first phone screens. They would always be forwarded
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by thu2111 6y ago
It sure would be easier to build software firms if every job got thousands of qualified applicants. Obviously, that isn't the case.
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's been done. They dismissed it because when hiring is blinded like that the percentage of ordinary men who get hired goes up, not down. Men are discriminated against in hiring and that fixes it, but the type of people who want &quot
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by thu2111 6y ago
So it's not 75 dummies, it's 75 people who have to please dummies who can't be just sent a wikipedia link for calculus? That's even worse!
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by thu2111 6y ago
I've read a lot of side channel papers like this one over the past few years. Here are some thoughts. Firstly, this new technique is probably not exploitable against 'real' cryptographic software. A very common technique in t
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's true. I've read one side channel attack paper that admitted towards the end that the researchers didn't actually even have access to AMD hardware to test with, but thought it should work in principle. Fact is Intel takes
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by thu2111 6y ago
Those weren't Intel fails - no CPU manufacturer had any kind of generic rule against that sort of microarchitectural optimisation and it's hard to imagine what sort of rule would have blocked such optimisations by policy which wou
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by thu2111 6y ago
That argument is true for Visual Studio. Not VS Code, which is Microsoft's "rewrite moment". Visual Studio is targeted at Windows apps, which you have to pay Microsoft to use. VS Code is targeted at web apps, which people run
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by thu2111 6y ago
Another important point: JetBrains have long experience of competing against well funded free competitors. In fact they have grown in an environment where there have always been such products: first NetBeans, then Eclipse, now VS Code. Subs
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by thu2111 6y ago
We can expand on this analysis a bit. IntelliJ runs its language plugins in-process, using object oriented APIs. VS Code runs language plugins out-of-process with an RPC protocol to the backend. The latter has some advantages if you want to
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by thu2111 6y ago
NB: IDEA performance is improved drastically by giving it more memory. Basically every time someone complains about perf issues with IDEA it's because their heap limit is too low. It can be configured via the help menu. One of the unfo
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Worth noting that IntelliJ latest beta has this feature as well. You can remote run/debug in remote docker containers and WSL2 VMs.
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There is already a Light Mode version of IntelliJ designed to compete with Sublime Text and maybe VS Code. It's not entirely obvious that it exists and they need to market it way better, but if you run "idea whatever.txt" f
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by thu2111 6y ago
This analysis is abysmal, the sort of quality I'd expect from the Guardian, and I'm not even American. It's mostly useful as a case study of how openly ideological Bloomberg has become. I can read it as I apparently have some
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't understand how your conclusion follows from the graph. That data would appear to indicate the opposite: that regulation had no effect. The graph shows that vehicle safety improved steadily throughout the entire 20th century, wi
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by thu2111 6y ago
AstraZeneca is not breaching its contract with the EU. That appears to be propaganda: note that the article doesn't actually state what part of the contract is being breached, and the link in the first paragraph that superficially lo
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It turns out that a lot of surprisingly impactful criminals never really figure out how to launder their money. Ulbricht appears to have had no real plan for how to actually benefit from his criminal proceeds, instead enjoying the feeling o
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I think the assumption is that: 1. the tree will eventually be replaced by another tree, but more trees are being planted overall than are dying, so their numbers go up 2. the time dimension matters a lot. i.e. sequestering lots of CO2 insi

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